The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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The Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister during the early reign of King George III, overseeing government amid growing tensions that led toward the American Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T91236 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence) Context triple: [William Pitt the Elder, predecessorAsPrimeMinister, The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)]
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Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English statesman and financial administrator who served as a leading minister under multiple monarchs and helped shape the fiscal foundations of the emerging British state.
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole was an 18th-century British statesman widely regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain and its longest-serving holder of the office.
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Earl of Orford
The Earl of Orford is a British peerage title historically associated with Sir Robert Walpole, often regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt the Elder was an 18th-century British statesman and orator who led Britain to major victories in the Seven Years' War and became one of the most influential political figures of his era.
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E.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent English general and statesman renowned for his decisive victories against France in the early 18th century and for shaping European power politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence) Target entity description: The Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister during the early reign of King George III, overseeing government amid growing tensions that led toward the American Revolution.
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A.
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English statesman and financial administrator who served as a leading minister under multiple monarchs and helped shape the fiscal foundations of the emerging British state.
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B.
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole was an 18th-century British statesman widely regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain and its longest-serving holder of the office.
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C.
Earl of Orford
The Earl of Orford is a British peerage title historically associated with Sir Robert Walpole, often regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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D.
William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt the Elder was an 18th-century British statesman and orator who led Britain to major victories in the Seven Years' War and became one of the most influential political figures of his era.
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E.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent English general and statesman renowned for his decisive victories against France in the early 18th century and for shaping European power politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence) Description of subject: The Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister during the early reign of King George III, overseeing government amid growing tensions that led toward the American Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
William Pitt the Elder
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predecessorAsPrimeMinister
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The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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